This $1,836,842 Project Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will support research into sensory-motor strategies for odor-guided navigation. Funded under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program, the Trustees of Boston University will conduct research to better understand how spatial information is encoded in the olfactory bulb during odor-guided search behaviors in mice. Researchers will use new imaging tools to...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,658,036 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will fund research conducted by the University of Rochester to investigate the effect of hippocampal feedback projections on the function of the early olfactory system. The research aims to understand how cognitive aspects of behavior, such as a sense of environment or anxiety,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will provide $558,930.00 to the University of Virginia to conduct an intensive longitudinal assessment of human olfaction (i.e., smell). The study aims to document typical olfactory fluctuations in healthy adults, changes in olfactory function associated with the menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and...
This Project Grant award of $559,782 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program, will support research at the University of Toledo to investigate olfactory combinatorial coding in C. elegans. The research aims to advance the understanding of how olfactory information is encoded and utilized to influence behavior and physiological responses. The award has a project...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will support research aimed at understanding how the piriform cortex in the mammalian brain encodes and represents olfactory information. The $502,742 award to Duke University, spanning 5 years from April 2025 to March 2030, will leverage innovative techniques to record from hundreds of...
This $380,376 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" will support research at Brown University on the convergence of behavioral and sensory information in the olfactory cortex of mice. The key objectives are to: 1) Determine whether behavioral signals in the piriform cortex support predictive processing of odor information, and 2)...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), aims to investigate how day/night cycles impact olfactory physiology and behavior. The $1,527,447 award to the University of California, San Diego will fund research to determine how antagonistic neuromodulators regulate olfactory receptor neuron responses, characterize the effectors that...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $2,671,407 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program to Estenda Solutions, Inc. The goal of this 3-year award, running from May 2025 to April 2028, is to launch and validate HUB4SMELL - a multi-test, collaborative digital platform designed to promote insights from human olfactory data. The project will deliver two key innovations: 1)...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $665,886 to New York University (NYU) School of Medicine to conduct research on information processing in the peripheral olfactory system. The research aims to characterize the transformation of odor responses from the olfactory bulb to mitral and tufted cells, explore the...
This federal Project Grant award for $423,500 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders will fund research at Florida State University to investigate how the piriform cortex (PCX) region of the brain encodes olfactory information. The research project aims to examine how individual and ensemble PCX neurons encode odor identity across different concentration regimes, and how...
This $1,400,787 project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders will fund research into the behavioral and neural substrates of odor-guided navigation in the human brain from January 2022 through December 2026. The grant supports research aligned with the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program to investigate solutions to problems directly relevant to individuals with disorders of human communication involving smell, taste, and other senses. Specifically, the grantee, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, will conduct functional magnetic resonance imaging, virtual reality, and computational studies to determine if grid-like neural responses can be inferred when human subjects navigate through an odor-rich two-dimensional landscape. The research aims to advance fundamental understanding of human olfactory navigation capacities and constraints, and highlight underlying neural mechanisms for locating odor sources.